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Dark Stories with Rae Review

Dark Stories with Rae Review

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Dark Stories with Rae Review — dive deep into true crime, dark history, and the unsettling depths of human behavior. You'll learn why and how people can be deeply depraved while also being deeply human. Narrated by Rae Review, your guide to bringing the disturbing tales to light. 🕯️ New episode every week 🕯️ . For more, visit raereview.com Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rae_review Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rae_review/ . Hosted on the Mercury network. For brand and advertising enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.comCopyright 2026 All rights reserved. Social Sciences True Crime
Episodes
  • Velma Barfield: History's First Female Lethal Injection

    Velma Barfield: History's First Female Lethal Injection
    Jun 4 2026
    Get my list of essential true crime documentaries HERE Velma Barfield: The “Grandmother” Serial Killer, Arsenic Poisonings, and America’s First Female Lethal Injection Rae profiles Velma Barfield, a little-known serial killer who killed at least four people and became the first woman executed in the U.S. in 22 years and the first ever by lethal injection. The episode examines competing explanations: sociopathy, addiction-driven fraud, and dissociative identity disorder. Before detailing her death row conversion, and attempted clemency by Governor Jim Hunt, and execution on November 2, 1984. 00:00 Serial Killer You Never Suspected 00:59 Velma Barfield Overview 01:58 Content Warning And Support 02:58 Abuse And Invisibility 04:24 Marriage And Medical Spiral 07:07 Bodies Begin To Pile Up 10:32 Caretaker Deaths And Fraud 11:37 Arsenic Autopsy Breakthrough 12:42 Why Did She Kill 18:51 Death Row And Execution 21:42 Monster Or System Failure 23:10 Wrap Up And Next Steps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
  • The Yogurt Shop Murders: Inside HBO's Final Episode (With Detective Dan Jackson)

    The Yogurt Shop Murders: Inside HBO's Final Episode (With Detective Dan Jackson)
    May 28 2026
    Rae Review featuring Detective Dan Jackson — the Austin Police cold case detective who solved the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders. For 34 years, the murders of Amy Ayers, Sarah Harbison, Jennifer Harbison, and Eliza Thomas went unsolved. The case landed on Dan Jackson's desk on his very first day in the cold case unit. He never imagined he'd be the one to answer the question on the billboards: who killed these girls? Three years later, using DNA and ballistics, he identified serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers as the man who did it. Detective Jackson joins Rae to talk about the science that finally cracked it, who Brashers really was, the promise he made to one victim's mother, and the phone call he made to the original 1991 detective before the news broke. Following our conversation with director Margaret Brown, whose HBO series The Yogurt Shop Murders just aired its final episode, The End of Wondering. Content note: discusses violence against young girls, sexual assault, and wrongful convictions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • The Yogurt Shop Murders: Inside HBO's Final Episode (With Director Margaret Brown)

    The Yogurt Shop Murders: Inside HBO's Final Episode (With Director Margaret Brown)
    May 21 2026
    Documentary filmmaker Margaret Brown joins Rae on Dark Stories to talk about the Yogurt Shop Murders - the 1991 case that haunted Austin, Texas for over three decades. The fifth and final episode, "The End of Wondering," premieres Friday, May 22, 2026 on HBO and HBO Max. On December 6, 1991, four teenage girls, Amy Ayers, Sarah Harbison, Jennifer Harbison, and Eliza Thomas, were murdered at an "I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!" shop in Austin, Texas. The case sat unsolved for 34 years. Four men were wrongfully accused. One was killed by police before his name was cleared. Then in September 2025, the case was finally solved. Margaret spent three and a half years with the families. She joins Rae to talk about grief, resolution, the wrongfully accused, and what it means when the truth finally comes. Content note: discusses violence against young girls, sexual assault, and wrongful convictions. The HBO Original documentary series The Yogurt Shop Murders continues with a new 90-minute fifth episode, "The End of Wondering," directed by Margaret Brown ("Descendant"), from A24 and Fruit Tree. The episode debuts Friday, May 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and HBO Max. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
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